AARDVK wrote:
This is about the "Stardust" question. We went with Neil Gaiman, who wrote the book "Stardust", later made into a movie. The answer was "Stephen Tall," who if you Google "Stardust series," doesn't even come up until the second page (and is someone I've never heard of).
So perhaps it was a really great question written by someone who thought people who knew sf/fantasy would be distracted by Gaiman having written a book by that name. Or perhaps the person writing the question had no idea Gaiman wrote such a book, and was just picking alternate (wrong) names at random.
(Although the real reason we lost tonight is that COOGS didn't go with me until after clues on two other questions, including the Charles Sheffield one.)
Brooke/AARDVK
So perhaps it was a really great question written by someone who thought people who knew sf/fantasy would be distracted by Gaiman having written a book by that name. Or perhaps the person writing the question had no idea Gaiman wrote such a book, and was just picking alternate (wrong) names at random.
(Although the real reason we lost tonight is that COOGS didn't go with me until after clues on two other questions, including the Charles Sheffield one.)
Brooke/AARDVK
I've noticed over the years that writers of specialty games have no compunction about ratcheting up the difficulty level; and rightfully so.
But this smells like the writer stumbled across the more obscure name during research and put in Gaiman as a "gotcha" option thereby achieving a similarly desired goal.
Game writers have to feel good about themselves too, you know...
p.s. You and I would have held hands walking down that same Gaiman primrose path. Gosh, I hope COOGS isn't the jealous type...
